[Congressional Bills 115th Congress]
[From the U.S. Government Publishing Office]
[H.R. 4079 Introduced in House (IH)]

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115th CONGRESS
  1st Session
                                H. R. 4079

   To repeal Public Law 114-145 to ensure that the Drug Enforcement 
   Administration has the authority to carry out needed enforcement 
  actions for drug diversion control investigations and operations to 
                      combat the opioid epidemic.


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                    IN THE HOUSE OF REPRESENTATIVES

                            October 19, 2017

 Mr. Fitzpatrick (for himself, Ms. Sinema, Mrs. Comstock, Mr. Keating, 
    Mr. Jenkins of West Virginia, and Ms. Kuster of New Hampshire) 
 introduced the following bill; which was referred to the Committee on 
Energy and Commerce, and in addition to the Committee on the Judiciary, 
for a period to be subsequently determined by the Speaker, in each case 
for consideration of such provisions as fall within the jurisdiction of 
                        the committee concerned

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                                 A BILL


 
   To repeal Public Law 114-145 to ensure that the Drug Enforcement 
   Administration has the authority to carry out needed enforcement 
  actions for drug diversion control investigations and operations to 
                      combat the opioid epidemic.

    Be it enacted by the Senate and House of Representatives of the 
United States of America in Congress assembled,

SECTION 1. SHORT TITLE.

    This Act may be cited as the ``Restoring Enforcement Standards to 
Track Opioids Responsively and Effectively Act of 2017'' or the 
``RESTORE Act of 2017''.

SEC. 2. RESTORING DEA'S AUTHORITY TO CARRY OUT NEEDED ENFORCEMENT 
              ACTIONS TO COMBAT DRUG DIVERSION AND THE OPIOID EPIDEMIC.

    Effective as of the enactment of Public Law 114-145 (the Ensuring 
Patient Access and Effective Drug Enforcement Act of 2016), such Act 
(including the amendments made by such Act) is repealed, and the 
provisions of sections 303 and 304 of the Controlled Substances Act (21 
U.S.C. 823, 824) that were amended by Public Law 114-145 are hereby 
restored as if Public Law 114-145 had not been enacted into law.
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